DEV Community

Cover image for How to get GitHub notifications on your Discord server.
Ineza Bonté Grévy
Ineza Bonté Grévy

Posted on • Updated on

How to get GitHub notifications on your Discord server.

GitHub provides us with a way to allow other applications such as discord to connect it and receive POST requests whenever any action is done on your repository.

This can be useful if you find the email notifications not as instant as you'd want them to be.

Prerequisites

  • You need to have a GitHub account with a repository.
  • You need to have a discord server where we will add the webhook.

1. Create the webhook

A webhook is basically a link that will allow other applications to post into discord.
To create a webhook, head into your server settings => integrations => New webhook
Alt Text
You can give your webhook a name and also choose which channel it will be posting to. You can click on Copy Webhook URL to copy the link which we are going to use on our GitHub repository.

2. Add Discord webhook to GitHub

After creating the webhook the next thing is to add it to your github repository from which you would like to get notifications.

Alt Text

Head over to your repo then settings => Webhooks => Add webhook

Paste the link we copied earlier from discord in the Payload URL and make sure to add /github at the end or it will not work.

Alt Text

Set the Content type to application/json and finally choose the events which should trigger the webhook. Personally, I want everything.

After you are done you can click the green button at the bottom labeled Add webhook to complete the process.

If you have done it correctly you should receive a similar notification to this;
Alt Text

3. Test the webhook

To test the webhook we can perform a simple action such as creating an issue on the repo which we just added the webhook.
A screenshot of creating a test issue

Upon creating the issue. You should immediately receive a notification from discord on whatever device you have installed it on.
Screen Shot 2021-05-01 at 13.50.28

It will work the same way when pushing commits, creating PRs ...etc

Thank You for reading❤️. If you have any questions feel free to drop them in the comments section below and I'll be glad to answer them.

Top comments (13)

Collapse
 
ucefkh profile image
Youssef Khouidi

FIX: add /github to the end of the webhook or it will not work!

thanks

Collapse
 
psanders profile image
Pedro Sanders

Thanks! This helped me.

Collapse
 
inezabonte profile image
Ineza Bonté Grévy

Updated 🙂

Collapse
 
t04435 profile image
T04435 • Edited

is there a way to filter the data is provided from GH?

IE: only notify on bugs created[new issue + label: bug]

Thanks.

Collapse
 
inezabonte profile image
Ineza Bonté Grévy

Yes it possible to narrow down what events you want to receive. You can select the
Let me select individual events. to see the wide range of events to choose from
Image description

Collapse
 
t04435 profile image
T04435

I saw that option but there is nothing that lets you aggregate a

  • created issue + label.contains('bug')

If there is pls, could you point to the specific check boxes to check

Thanks.

ATM I'm moving towards GH workflow with github.com/marketplace/actions/dis...

Collapse
 
jazibobs profile image
Jared Rigby

Perfect tutorial, concise and easy to follow 10/10 :)

Collapse
 
mhimon profile image
Mahbub Hasan Imon

Thanks, man! Worked perfectly

Collapse
 
leandreally profile image
LEANDRE ALLY

Thanks it working on my end💥

Collapse
 
rifkymaulana profile image
Rifky Maulana

Thankk youu, your article is amazing. it's very useful for mee....

Collapse
 
inezabonte profile image
Ineza Bonté Grévy

Glad it could help

Collapse
 
hasindulanka profile image
Hasindu Lanka

You saved my day!

Collapse
 
dev_a_dev profile image
Dev Keshwani

This webhook only connects a particular repo or covers all the repos of an github account?? @inezabonte